Day 156: Dirty or Dirrty?

OMG, today had to have been one of the best days I've ever had!!!  :-)

We slept in quite late today, and then changed right back into our suits to go and have a day full of good ol' fashioned fun in the mud!  They had all the same activities set up today as there was yesterday, only today the weather was even nicer!  It was warm and sunny and there were actually blue skies all day today - something that I haven't seen in ages it seems!

We made a b-line to the mud pit, and this is where things got *real dirty*, or maybe I should say Dirrty?  Once again we shyly stepped into the pit and waited to see how long it would be before we got attacked by the muddy geurilla warriors that inhabit the mud pit!  Michael and Eric got picked off first, while I just stood off to the side laughing my head off at them!  My peaceful cleanliness did not last long though...

I was just standing there when this girl in a bikini came up to me (and she couldn't have been more than 5'5" in height) and said "Hey you!  You're way too clean to be in here!"  She then proceeded to PICK ME UP, throw me over her shoulders, and then slammed me into the mud, throwing herself on top of me!  Oh my!  She pinned me down while she threw mud all over me, and then all of her friends and everyone else in the ring ran up and before I knew it tsunamis of mud were washing over my body, trapped under this firey muddy pixie!  Woohoo!!
The next hour or so was like a scene out of a naughty music/soft-porn movie!  Guys and girls wearing only their bathing suits tackled each other in a no holds barred/winner takes all wrestling match!  I spent more time rolling around in the mud with bikini-clad girls and board-short guys, none of whom I had ever met before, grabbing and groping and trying desperately to stay on top of the seething mass of muddy human flesh that seethed and writhed every which way, than I can even describe!!  It was like Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" video come to life!  (aka: My Dream Come True!)  ;-)

After our mud wrestling matches, in which I lost horribly each and every time, we decided to spend the rest of the day on the beach.  The summer heat was glorious and this was the nicest beach I've seen yet in Korea.  Clean, smooth, soft white sand.  And the waters were SO WARM!  We spent a good three hours or more swimming and playing and horsing around in the waves of the Yellow Sea and I don't think I've ever had that much fun in the ocean before!  It was awesome!  The afternoon just flew by and we didn't want to leave - this was true summer paradise!  Unfortunately, if we wanted to get home at a half-decent hour, we had to hit the road...

And it's a good thing we did cause even with our semi-early departure it took *forever* to get home!  The drive from Boryeong to Seoul, when there's no traffic, is only 2.5 hours long.  Today it took us SIX HOURS to get home!  Ugh!!!  We even got off the main freeway (which was more like a parking lot) and took smaller secondary highways to get away from the crowds, but it still took a long time to get home.  Ahhh well, that's the reality of living in a crowded country!  We got home around 10pm or so and I then had to subway it all the way back home to Ilsan.  I went to sleep that night still feeling like I was bobbing in the waves.  What a wonderful day - if only every day was a Mud Festival Day!  :-)